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Are your days like the days of mortals
    or your years like human years,(A)

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But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.(A)

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Before the mountains were brought forth
    or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
    from everlasting to everlasting you are God.(A)

You turn us[a] back to dust
    and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”(B)
For a thousand years in your sight
    are like yesterday when it is past
    or like a watch in the night.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 90.3 Heb humankind

12 like a cloak you will roll them up,
    and like clothing[a] they will be changed.
But you are the same,
    and your years will never end.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1.12 Other ancient authorities lack like clothing

24 “O my God,” I say, “do not take me away
    at the midpoint of my life,
you whose years endure
    throughout all generations.”(A)

25 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,
    and the heavens are the work of your hands.(B)
26 They will perish, but you endure;
    they will all wear out like a garment.
You change them like clothing, and they pass away,(C)
27     but you are the same, and your years have no end.(D)

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12 But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever;
    your name endures to all generations.(A)

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26 Surely God is great, and we do not know him;
    the number of his years is unsearchable.(A)

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